Negative Words: Christopher Michael's Positive Words

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A concisely worthwhile read author Christopher Michael's Positive Words imparts readers with some importantly relevant information and strategies focusing on using positive words in order to awaken ones positive thinking and thereby improving the quality of their lives.

Positive Words was an engaging and informative read, that although brief, contained some of the most crucial points about the power of words and their effect on people's psyche and lives. The book is fairly well organized and offers easy and reliable strategies for readers to use. I particularly enjoyed chapter 2, How Negative and Positive Thoughts Work. as it provided pertinently plausible information that most people do not realize but with the author's work in this book

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